Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 814. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MACEDON. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.14 g, 1h). Pella mint. Struck circa 294-293 BC. Nike alighting atop prow of galley left, blowing trumpet she holds in her right hand, and holding stylis in her left / BASI-LEW-S DHMHTRIOU, Poseidon Pelagaios, nude, standing left, throwing trident held in his right hand, mantle over his left arm; A to left, AI monogram in circle to right. Newell 44; SNG München 1039; SNG Alpha Bank -; McClean 3575; Meydancikkale 2560. Good VF. ($500)

Newell 44 lists an AI monogram in the circle on the reverse. We have examined a number of coins as Newell 44, though, which apparently have the crossbar on the A missing, giving the monogram the appearance of being an N, as on our example.